Jumia

Tuesday, 2 August 2016

Land thieves invade church, beat Prayer Warriors to pulp for invoking God’s wrath on them

Suspected land thieves at the weekend invaded a prayer
ground in Umudioka, Awka area of Anambra State and beat a prayer leader, Kenechukwu
Nebeolisa and some prayer warriors to near death for allegedly invoking the
wrath of God on them.

Nebeolisa had invited the prayer warriors to the community
to ward off all manner of evils, including land-grabbing, intimidation,
harassment, robbery and thug activities in the community.

Vanguard gathered that in the middle of the vigil by
Nebeolisa and the prayer warriors, some armed youths stormed the prayer ground
and beat everybody there to a pulp, for invoking God’s wrath on them.

Narrating his ordeal in the hands of the youths, Nnebolisa
said: “They said I did not take permission from them before inviting the prayer
warriors to curse them; that as those in charge of the youths in Ezi-Awka, I
must take permission from them.

“Those youths have been going about extorting money, beating
up people and taking over their land. The last time they met me at Aguoye
Hills, they beat the hell out of me. I reported the case to the Chairman and
the Secretary of Ezi-Awka Youth Assembly and also to the Chairman of the Board
of Trustees for necessary action.”

Contacted, Chairman
of the Ezi- Awka Town Assembly, Ikechukwu Ezenwa, said: “I have received
several reports against the clandestine activities of the group, who even claim
in the media sometime to be the elected executive of the Ezi-Awka Youth
Assembly.

"During the recent celebration of Imoka, the same group stormed
the arena and robbed, destroyed canopies and items meant for the occasion. They
injured many.

"A town crier, Mr. Ozoanadimkanyi, was brutally beaten up,
his house ransacked and his tenants robbed by the land-grabbers. Unless
security operatives arrest them, they will continue to commit all kinds of
crimes in the community."